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Matt Timson is a British comic book artist who resides in Leicester.

Biography

Timson has done a lot of work (especially covers) for British small press comics including Solar Wind, The End Is Nigh and FutureQuake, as well as working as a freelance illustrator.

In recent years he has begun to get professional comics work, on Popgun with Leah Moore and John Reppion,^[1] and most recently on Impaler, after the title moved from Image Comics to Top Cow.^[2][3][4] Comics critic Timothy Callahan in a review of Impaler #3 said:

his work on "Impaler" is startlingly evocative. His fully painted (or mixed-media) art shifts from bloody violence to haunting melancholy to pastel cheerlessness. He can do murky action scenes and crisply colored diner sequences with consistent beauty. It's a savage beauty, appropriate to a horror-action comic, but it's one that recalls Dave McKean mixed with Bill Sienkiewicz mixed with Frazer Irving. ... He's an artist to keep an eye on, to be sure.^[5]

Bibliography

Comics

Interior comics work includes:

• "The Ripper" (written by Arthur Wyatt, in FutureQuake #1, 2003) ^[6]
• "The Omnocular Man" (written by Paul Scott, in Solar Wind #2, 2003 & #3, 2004)
• "54 Jones" (written by Paul Scott, in Omnivistascope Model One, 2005 & Model Two, 2006)
• "Labour 7" (in Twelve a - retelling of the 12 tasks of Herakles)
• "The Last War" (written by Al Ewing, in The End Is Nigh #2, 2005)
• "Death Squid" (written by Paul Scott, in Solar Wind #1, 2003 & #2, 2003)
• Gutsville #2 (written by Simon Spurrier, with art by Frazer Irving, Image Comics, 2007)
• "Deadeye" (written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, in Popgun #1 and 2, Image Comics, 2007, 2008)
• Impaler (with William Harms, 5-issue limited series, Top Cow Productions, December 2008 - March 2010, ongoing, tpb, 160 pages, August 2010, ISBN 1-60706-101-5)
• "Zip" (with Andi Ewington and 44 other artists, in Forty-Five, anthology graphic novel, Com.x, February 2010, ISBN 1-61584-713-8)
• The Darkness #89 (with Joshua Hale Fialkov, Top Cow, January 2011)

Covers

• Solar Wind #1
• The End Is Nigh #1 (right)
• FutureQuake #4
• Violent #8
• Omnivistascope Model One

Awards

• 2010: Nominated for "Favourite Newcomer Artist" Eagle Award

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
• Matt Timson's blog
• The making of Impaler by Matt Timson, Comic Monsters.com
• FULL ISSUE - Top Cow's 'Impaler #1', Newsarama, March 11, 2009
• Impaler #1-3 review, Ain't It Cool News